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Jill Harrison gave an invited presentation to the California Fish and Game Commission and executive leadership of California’s Natural Resources Agency on her research on the challenges facing government agencies’ environmental justice reform efforts.

The talk will be about her research on the challenges facing government agencies’ environmental justice reform efforts. October 6 3:30-4:30pm

Tune in for information on requirements for the major and minor, advising, study abroad, honors, internships and certificates. For Sociology majors and minors and those interested. When: Friday, October 1st Event start: 11am Where: Zoom https://cuboulder.zoom.us/my/leslieirvine *Missed the event? No worries! You can watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9jCFEQetKI Raffle prize for...

Jason Boardman and Jason Fletcher’s (University of Wisconsin) paper entitled “Evaluating the Continued Integration of Genetics into Medical Sociology” was just published in the Journal of Health & Social Behavior .

“On-time, late, or never: Incorporating intersectionality to predict age-specific probabilities of initiating the HPV vaccine series.” Social Science & Medicine 287 (October): 114227. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114227 Truong-Vu, Kim-Phuong . (2020) “Reflections on Academic Guilt and Family Responsibilities.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color 8(2):216:221 . DOI: https://doi.org/10.5406/womgenfamcol.8.2.0216

The article is titled, "Is Mexico beyond mestizaje? Blackness, race mixture, and discrimination" Abstract: In the 1980s and 1990s, a wave of multiculturalism swept across Latin America, following long-standing ideologies of mestizaje which glorified the region’s biological and cultural mixture and asserted that such mixture precluded the existence of racism...

Amanda Stevenson posted a preprint version of a paper forthcoming in Demography. It provides estimates of the most predictable part of the mortality consequence of banning abortion in the US - the additional mortality that would occur because staying pregnancy carries a greater risk of death than abortion. You can...

She begins her term of service today, September 7, 2021.

Lori Peek was quoted in the follow Washington Post article focused on school safety in extreme weather and earthquake events.

Jenn Tostlebe and David Pyrooz (along with Ryan Labrecque and Bert Useem ) have a new article out in Health & Justice, titled: "Reforming solitary confinement: The development, implementation, and processes of a restrictive housing step down reentry program in Oregon." The article will appear in the special issue on...